Acute respiratory distress syndrome: causes, pathophysiology, and phenotypes

LDJ Bos, LB Ware - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common clinical syndrome of acute
respiratory failure as a result of diffuse lung inflammation and oedema. ARDS can be …

The coagulopathy, endotheliopathy, and vasculitis of COVID-19

T Iba, JM Connors, JH Levy - Inflammation Research, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background COVID-19-associated coagulopathy (CAC) characterized by the
elevated D-dimer without remarkable changes of other global coagulation markers is …

Microvascular dysfunction in COVID-19: the MYSTIC study

A Rovas, I Osiaevi, K Buscher, J Sackarnd… - Angiogenesis, 2021 - Springer
Rationale Pre-clinical and autopsy studies have fueled the hypothesis that a dysregulated
vascular endothelium might play a central role in the pathogenesis of ARDS and multi-organ …

COVID-19 is a systemic vascular hemopathy: insight for mechanistic and clinical aspects

DM Smadja, SJ Mentzer, M Fontenay, MA Laffan… - Angiogenesis, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is presenting as a systemic disease associated with …

Every step of the way: integrins in cancer progression and metastasis

H Hamidi, J Ivaska - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix is fundamental to tissue integrity and human health.
Integrins are the main cellular adhesion receptors that through multifaceted roles as …

Role of angiopoietin-2 in vascular physiology and pathophysiology

RG Akwii, MS Sajib, FT Zahra, CM Mikelis - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Angiopoietins 1–4 (Ang1–4) represent an important family of growth factors, whose activities
are mediated through the tyrosine kinase receptors, Tie1 and Tie2. The best characterized …

Endothelial damage in acute respiratory distress syndrome

AG Vassiliou, A Kotanidou, I Dimopoulou… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The pulmonary endothelium is a metabolically active continuous monolayer of squamous
endothelial cells that internally lines blood vessels and mediates key processes involved in …

Therapeutic targeting of the angiopoietin–TIE pathway

P Saharinen, L Eklund, K Alitalo - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2017 - nature.com
The endothelial angiopoietin (ANG)–TIE growth factor receptor pathway regulates vascular
permeability and pathological vascular remodelling during inflammation, tumour …

Protein interactions at endothelial junctions and signaling mechanisms regulating endothelial permeability

YA Komarova, K Kruse, D Mehta, AB Malik - Circulation research, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
The monolayer of endothelial cells lining the vessel wall forms a semipermeable barrier (in
all tissue except the relatively impermeable blood–brain and inner retinal barriers) that …

A human disease model of drug toxicity–induced pulmonary edema in a lung-on-a-chip microdevice

D Huh, DC Leslie, BD Matthews, JP Fraser… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
Preclinical drug development studies currently rely on costly and time-consuming animal
testing because existing cell culture models fail to recapitulate complex, organ-level disease …